The History Book Club discussion

The Towers of Silence by Paul Scott

by Paul Scott
Genre or Genres: Historical Fiction
Start Page: 328
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 375
Total pages read: 48
How much time did you read during this block of time: 1.5 hours
Location: Warner Robins, GA - EST
Books completed: 0 so far
What were they: None so far

Welcome to Michael from the great country of Canada - the true North and from the province of Alberta.

Welcome to Francie from the beautiful Peach State - the great state of Georgia

My Template - FINAL - Bentley

The Republic by Plato

by Plato

Genre or genres: Philosophy
Start Page: 1 - Book One - Prelude, etc
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 36
Total Pages Read: (Still going) - Audio but will translate to pages - 36
How much time did you read during this block of time: administrating and listening and typing all at the same time - so hard to say - but elapsed time 4 hours
Location: Metro NYC - Eastern Standard Time
Books Complete: 0 so far
What were they? None so far

Checking in.
by Ron Rash
Pages read 1-97
Time read 3 hours
Genre: Literary Fiction
Location SC EST
No books completed

Greetings! Checking in from Camano Island, Washington.

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer

by (no photo)

Genre: Religion/History
Pages read: page 36 to 66
Time read: 2 hours
Pages read: 30 (with lots of footnotes and references)
Book completed? nope
Location: Camano Island, WA - Pacific Daylight Time

Welcome Helga from the beautiful state of South Carolina (the Palmetto State)

Welcome Kristen from Camano Island in Washington - the Evergreen State. I wanted to see what Camano Island looked like - and where it was.



It looks quite beautiful and I guess you have a plethora of gray whales:

All of the United States should be in play and the rest of the world too. Except of course French Polynesia and Hawaii where it is only 5:20AM - 2 and 1/2 hours TO START TIME for you.

Good Morning
by C.S. Friedman
Genre: Fantasy
Start Page:1
Finish page for this checkpoint:270
Total Pages read:270
How much time did you read during this block of time:
Location: British Columbia, Pacific Time Zone
Books Complete: 0
What were they?

Good Morning M and a special welcome to beautiful and magnificent British Columbia, Canada - The Pacific Province

by Terry Pratchett

Genre or genres: Fantasy
Start Page: 35
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 84
Total Pages Read: 49
How much time did you read during this block of time: 55 minutes
Location: St. Louis, MO (Central StandardTime)
Books Complete: None yet!

by Scott Eyman (no photo)
Genre or genres: Biography
Start Page: 32
Finish Page (for this checkpoint): 49
Total Pages Read: 16
How much time did you read during this block of time: 30 minutes
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA PDT
Bookds completed: 0

Welcome Katie from St. Louis, Missouri - Missouri is The Show-Me State

by Alexander D. Mitchell IV
Genre: History/Travel
Start Page: 28
Finish Page: 144
Total Pages: 116
Time: 3 hours
Completed: yes
Location: Arkansas, Central Time

Welcome Leah from the great state of Arkansas - The Wonder State or The Natural State - It is also the former home of President Clinton from a city called Hope.

by William K. Klingaman(no photo)
Genre: American history
Number of pages read: 72 (241 - 313)
Time read: 1 hr, 15 minutes (10:30 am - 11:45am)
Location: WV, EDT
Books completed: 0

Welcome Jill from the great state of West Virginia - the Mountain State

Updating and finishing this checkpoint
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
by Umberto Eco
Genre: Fiction
Pages read: page 1 to page 90
Number of pages: 90
Time frame: 8:00-9:00, 9:40-11:30
Reading time: 2 hrs 50 min
Location: California, PDT

No books completed yet. Sadly, there's no way I will finish this book during the Readathon. It's 525 pages long with small type. But I plan to read most of the day, which I haven't done in a long time so it will be interesting to see how far I can get.

Yea Vicki is here from Berkeley, California.

Welcome Vicki from the great state of California - The Golden State

Ooh, Foucault's Pendulum! Hope you're enjoying it, Vicki. I'm going to need to re-read that one of these days.

by Umberto Eco

by Robert Leckie
Genre: History
Pages: 1 to 56. Chapters 1 and 2 (more to go)
Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes (approximately)
Location: Portland, OR
Books: Completed: 0

Remember the old citation Katie (smile)

by Umberto Eco

I am not sure I welcomed Nancy from the great state of Washington - the Evergreen State but glad to have you here.

Ceroth wrote: "Marian Paul here from Portland, OR, Pacific Time
Genre: History
Book: Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie
Pages: 1 to 20 (more to go)
Time: 30 minutes (so far)
Time 8 to 8:30 and 9:30 to 9:43"

Hello Ceroth and welcome - check my template in message 54 and add the appropriate segments you are missing. Also add the citation for the book - book cover, author's photo and author's link.

You can use and update the same template for each of the check ins - (1-6) but for the Check Out we have a separate template for Check Outs and that template is posted on Check Out - Checkpoint Seven (7). Update and fix here and just reuse the template for the next checkins.

Welcome Ceroth from the great state of Oregon - a truly beautiful spot on earth - The Beaver State.

I reposted my template here for you to use so you can update your own:

My Template - FINAL - Bentley

The Republic by Plato

by Plato

Genre or genres: Philosophy
Start Page: 1 - Book One - Prelude, etc
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 36
Total Pages Read: (Still going) - Audio but will translate to pages - 36
How much time did you read during this block of time: administrating and listening and typing all at the same time - so hard to say - but elapsed time 4 hours
Location: Metro NYC - Eastern Standard Time
Books Complete: 0 so far
What were they? None so far

Checked out. Msg 46.

Thank you Teri - you should be on to Checkpoint Two - I will take a look.

I miscalculated my time but just fixed.

Teri wrote: "I miscalculated my time but just fixed."

OK

Check out: Message 35

Is that okay and I can see other peoples pictures of their books but how come I can't see mine?

by Donnie Eichar

Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Travel
Start page: Chapter 1, page 21
Finish Page: Chapter 13, page 115
Total Pages Read: 94
How much time spent reading: about an hour, total
Books Completed: None
Location: California, Pacific Time Zone

Edited: Now Checking out.

Ceroth wrote: "Is that okay and I can see other peoples pictures of their books but how come I can't see mine?"

I am not sure. Have you added it correctly from the add book/author segment above the comment box and to the right?

Rosa wrote: "Check out: Message 35"

I will

Welcome Michelle from the beautiful state of California - The Golden State.

It is now 10:36 AM for your West Coast Readers - so make sure you check in to Checkpoint One before Noon.

Tim Harris(no photo)

History (British)

Read Pages 28-61
Num pages total: 33

1 hour (probably less than that, but oh well!) i know it's not yet noon, but I gotta do stuff...

Location: Denver Colorado (Mountain TZ)

nope, it's a 512 page book... did not finish

Welcome Marc from the great state of Colorado (The Centennial State) - better late than never - and it is never too late to join in as long as it is after 8AM on your August 22nd and before 8AM on your August 23rd.

You can always check in during the time period that you start - but then again you still made Checkpoint One - Make sure to tidy up the template - some parts missing.

Bentley wrote: "Ceroth wrote: "Is that okay and I can see other peoples pictures of their books but how come I can't see mine?"

I am not sure. Have you added it correctly from the add book/author segment above t..."

Thanks. That did it.

Pretty good Ceroth - the citation should look like this but great effort and almost perfect. You need to add the author's link and you type in the word by. Happy to help out.

by Robert Leckie

Note edited update of Message #50 for this checkpoint. Moving on to checkpoint #2.

Thank you Michael - I will check and congrats on moving to Checkpoint Two

This is Christopher from California checking in with my first completed book for the readathon.

Name of Book and Author or books and authors: by Harper Lee.

Genre or genres: fiction

Start page: 165

Finish page for this checkpoint: 278

Total pages read: 113

How much time did you read during this block of time: Approximately 2 hours 30 minutes

Location in the world and timezone: San Bernardino, Pacific Standard Time (PST).

Completed books: 1 so far.

What were they?: by Harper Lee

Now I shall move on to another book and hopefully check in again with that book before this four hour period is done.

Well Done Christopher - I am getting confused with the Christophers and Chris's - this is your first post on Checkpoint One right - so I will make sure I keep all of the Christophers and Chris's distinct. I think the other was Chris from Kansas.

So a warm welcome to Christopher from The Golden State - the beautiful state of California.

I think you are missing a few parts in the template because you also finished the book.

Let me show you my template for this checkpoint and you can fill in yours appropriately and add all missing parts - and then you can use the same framework for all of the other Check Ins (1 through 6) - just keep updating them.

There is a separate and different template for the Check Out Template which is different but posted on that thread - Check Out - Checkpoint Seven

My Template - FINAL - Bentley

The Republic by Plato

by Plato

Genre or genres: Philosophy
Start Page: 1 - Book One - Prelude, etc
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 36
Total Pages Read: (Still going) - Audio but will translate to pages - 36
How much time did you read during this block of time: administrating and listening and typing all at the same time - so hard to say - but elapsed time 4 hours
Location: Metro NYC - Eastern Standard Time
Books Complete: 0 so far
What were they? None so far

Bentley wrote: "Well Done Christopher - I am getting confused with the Christophers and Chris's - this is your first post on Checkpoint One right - so I will make sure I keep all of the Christophers and Chris's di..."

I edited my post to reflect your template. I shall try to keep that template in mind in the future check ins. Also, how do you bold something? I don't know the codes for that.

It makes it easier for you to just edit, copy, paste and update. All checkins 1 through 6 use the same template.

Go to (some html is OK) and they will show you the codes and output - if you still have issues I will try to type it hear. But I will have to put space in between all of the elements so that it shows up.

Read 270 pages this block. Will update to correct format later. The phone app really stinks.

Yes, make sure to update your template and I agree

Checking out of Checkpoint One and moving on to Checkpoint Two.

Great news Ceroth - you are on your way.